Surfside homes, remade from the studs.

Surfside's single-family blocks, from Abbott and Byron to Carlyle, Dickens, and Hawthorne, were mostly built in the 1940s and 50s, when a beach house meant compact rooms, one bathroom, and a carport. Those same houses now sit on some of the most sought-after ground between Miami Beach and Bal Harbour, and their owners face a familiar choice: tear down or remodel properly. A serious whole-home remodel keeps the scale and character of the street while delivering open living space, new mechanical systems, impact openings, and finishes that match what the property has become.

Every home remodeling project here runs through the Town of Surfside Building Department, and this is not a town that waves things through. Substantial renovations and exterior changes go to the Planning and Zoning Board, which doubles as the town's design review body; complete plans are due weeks before a board date, and a pre-application meeting with the Town Planner comes first. Layer on Miami-Dade's High-Velocity Hurricane Zone product approvals, plus FEMA flood rules on a barrier island where the substantial-improvement threshold can change the math on a low-slab house, and sequencing the approvals becomes half the job.

More than twenty years of South Florida building sit behind PGX Builders Group, along with over 150 remodels and additions, all of them permitted and inspected. We put the full scope in writing before demolition, keep a supervisor on site daily, and run every trade under one license, CGC1539072. On streets this quiet, that discipline shows: protected floors, a clean site at five o'clock, and neighbors who know exactly who to wave at.